Kibana 8.0.0-rc2

For information about the Kibana 8.0.0-rc2 release, review the following information.

Breaking change

Breaking changes can prevent your application from optimal operation and performance. Before you upgrade, review the breaking change, then mitigate the impact to your application.

Removes the ability to use elasticsearch.username: elastic in production

Details
In production, you are no longer able to use the elastic superuser to authenticate to Elasticsearch. For more information, refer to #122722.

Impact
When you configure elasticsearch.username: elastic, Kibana fails.

To review the breaking changes in previous versions, refer to the following:

8.0.0-rc1 | 8.0.0-beta1 | 8.0.0-alpha2 | 8.0.0-alpha1

Features

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Kibana 8.0.0-rc2 adds the following new and notable features.

Dashboard

Dashboard Integration #115991

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 8.0.0-rc2 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.

Monitoring

Enterprise Search Stack Monitoring #114303

Observability

Adds Agent Keys in APM settings - Create agent keys #120373
Adds Agent Keys in APM settings - Agent key table #119543
Allows users to set Download Speed, Upload Speed, and Latency for their synthetic monitors in Uptime #118594

Platform

Changes saved objects management inspect view to a read-only JSON view of the whole saved object #112034

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